Dr Wai Low

Bioinformatics Data Scientist

School of Animal and Veterinary Science

Faculty of Sciences

I am currently a Bioinformatics Data Scientist at Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide. Prior to this I was an Assistant Professor and Head of Products and Services at the Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi), which is under the School of Data Sciences. I obtained my Ph.D in Genetics from the University of Melbourne and did my postdoctoral fellowships at the Monash University. Currently, I am also taking a part-time graduate diploma in Biostatistics, which is a course delivered by the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA).

My research interests are in the areas of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, genome assembly, gene annotation, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, genetic disorders and metagenomics. The species I have worked on include fly, worm, human, primate, bacteria, water buffalo and cattle. I have authored/co-authored research articles at internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals and I have presented my work at numerous international conferences. I am a co-author of two patents related to the important discovery and genomic analyses of a probiotic bacteria. Recently I have also written a practical handbook on NGS.

I also have experience in creating e-Learning educational contents in Biology, teaching bioinformatics, biostatistics and genetics to undergraduate/postgraduate students. Additionally, I was an invited speaker for two NGS workshops and I was also the main facilitator for a workshop on using R in biostatistics.

I am currently a Bioinformatics Data Scientist at Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide. My research interests are in the areas of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, genome assembly, gene annotation, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, genetic disorders and metagenomics. The species I have worked on include fly, worm, human, primate, bacteria, water buffalo and cattle. I have authored/co-authored research articles at internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals and I have presented my work at numerous international conferences. I am a co-author of two patents related to the important discovery and genomic analyses of a probiotic bacteria. Recently I have also written a practical handbook on NGS.

Senior Lecturer and Head of Biotechnology undergraduate program at the Manipal International University (Aug 2013 – Sep 2014). Taught Computational Biology and Genetics to undergraduate students and prepared documents in compliance with Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA).